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This guide will guide you on how to Backup and Restore Firefox Bookmarks?

We all bookmark our favorite websites or pages which we might need to refer or read at a later time. Over the period of time, we might have hundreds or even more websites of our interest added to the bookmarks. Now, what if we are getting our computer serviced with the operating system reinstalled or if we are changing to a brand new computer? We would never like to loose all our bookmarks in Firefox, wouldn’t we? I have in the past experienced the pain of remembering the addresses of the websites that I wanted to refer to. The easiest way of accessing our bookmarks would be by setting up “Firefox Sync” feature which I will discuss in a later post, but that needs you to setup an account with Firefox. This guide will show you how to backup and restore Firefox bookmarks without an account with Firefox.

Before we begin, note down this link or may be take a picture of the address as you may need this page to follow instructions on your new Firefox before you restore the bookmarks. The link is www.pcsurfer.com/firefoxbookmarks

::BACKUP FIREFOX BOOKMARKS::

1) Click the “Firefox” button on the top left corner of the Firefox window and hover the mouse cursor over “Bookmarks” and then click “Show All Bookmarks”

Navigate to Show All Bookmarks (click to enlarge)

2) You will get the Library window, click “Import and Backup” and then “Backup” on this screen:

Click Backup (click to enlarge)

3) Choose from the left menu where you would like to save the backup file (preferably on an external backup drive or a USB Pen/thumb drive) and click “Save” :

Save the bookmarks backup file (click to enlarge)

The backup file would automatically be named with the current date, you can change the name of the backup file if you want :

Bookmarks Backup File (click to enlarge)

::RESTORE FIREFOX BOOKMARKS::

So after you have serviced/fixed/reinstalled your computer or if you have purchased a new computer, you can download Firefox from the Firefox website and install it. Once you install the Firefox, follow the following steps to restore your bookmarks.

1) Click the “Firefox” button on the top left corner of the Firefox window and hover the mouse cursor over “Bookmarks” and then click “Show All Bookmarks”

Navigate to Show All Bookmarks (click to enlarge)

2) You will get the Library window, click “Import and Backup”, then click “Restore” and then “Choose File” on this screen:

Restore Bookmarks from a file (click to enlarge)

3) Choose the Bookmarks backup file that we created earlier from the external backup drive/ USB pen drive or any other safe location where you saved the backup file before and click “Open” :

Choose Backup File (click to enlarge)

4) Press “OK” to successfully restore the bookmarks backups :

The Final Step (click to enlarge)

That was an easy and simple way to backup and restore your Firefox bookmarks, I will surely cover the “Firefox sync” way in future. Keep reading PCSurfer..